Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna. Head of the LSE IDEAS Space Policy Project.
Dimitrios Stroikos
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3/4 This has the effect of reifying a universal understanding of space security, often distorting or obscuring the different meanings, referent objects, and drivers of space security policy in the non-Western world.
Dimitrios Stroikos
Don’t miss the International Studies Association’s Virtual PASS course “Advancing Diplomacy for Space Security” next Monday (Feb 9, 2026) with Saadia M. Pekkanen, PJ Blount, Gregory Miller — and me. Mini TTX + diplomacy under time pressure.
www.isanet.org/Programs/Vir...
I’ll be presenting my recent Pacific Review article, Empire of the stars not yet? China as a “partial” great power in space. Free and open to all, and chaired by @bleddb.bsky.social
China’s space achievements are accelerating. But does that automatically make it a great power in space? My article explores why space power also depends on leadership, recognition, and the ability to attract and retain followers.
Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
In my open access article for @iajournal.bsky.social I examine how space politics is becoming more plural and less Western-centric.
It looks at how China, private actors, emerging space powers, the global South, and regional cooperation are reshaping the international space order.
Is China a great power in space? Join me on 26 March for an online event hosted by the Astropolitics Working Group of @BritishIntS.
Register: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
